Schedules

• 12:00 am
  All Things Considered SpaceX Makes History at the Space Station For the first time, a spacecraft sent up by a private company has successfully reached the international space station. A NASA astronaut on the station used a robotic arm to grab the unmanned Dragon capsule this morning.
• 1:00 am
  This Week in Northern California
• 1:30 am
  Soundprint Segment One: Foot and Mouth Disease The virus that causes FMD (Foot and Mouth Disease) is one of the most feared among farmers. It can decimate herds. Even if animals recover, beef and milk production can be severely impacted. FMD is so contagious, and such a dreaded disease, that animal health agencies in outbreak countries fear stigmatization if outbreaks aren't eradicated quickly. Draconian measures such as mass killings and burning of carcasses are often employed, as the effectiveness of vaccines is short-lived, and the FMD virus has seven distinct varieties. The show visits the UK, where the damage from an FMD outbreak 10 years ago is still fresh in farmers' minds.
• 2:00 am
  Commonwealth Club James Fallows - 'China Airborne' In 2011, China announced its five-year plan to spend a quarter of a trillion dollars to jumpstart the next phase of its aerospace industry. The country currently has many airports under construction, and a growing workforce of engineers and assembly workers. As China continues to lead the charge to become the new leader in aviation power, James Fallows discusses the scale of China's ambitious plans. What would they mean, not only for the United States, but the rest of the world? Fallows is national correspondent for The Atlantic and author of "China Airborne: The Dream of Aviation in Emerging China."
• 3:00 am
  Washington Week The Presidents' Club Weeks before his inauguration, then President-elect Barack Obama met with President George W. Bush and three former presidents at the White House. President Bill Clinton forged a close relationship with former President Richard Nixon over foreign policy. And since leaving office, George H.W. Bush has worked in tandem on a number of humanitarian efforts with the man who kept him from a second-term - Bill Clinton. The program examines the unique bipartisan solidarity current and former presidents share with the reporters who cover the White House:
• 3:30 am
  Inside Europe Is Cyprus the Next Euro Domino? The possibility of Greece leaving the eurozone is increasing. And one country which could find itself in the eye of a financial storm is Cyprus, where the banks are paying a heavy price for their investments in Greece. This tiny Mediterranean island has a mountain of banking debt, a weak government and an increasingly angry public.
• 4:00 am
  It's Your World (a broadcast of the World Affairs Council) The Erosion of Civil Liberties in the U.S. Long before the attacks of September 11, 2001, the rights and civil liberties guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution have been challenged by legal compromises made in the name of national security. The program's guest is David Shipler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former foreign correspondent for The New York Times. He'll discuss how our rights to privacy and justice have been undermined, what we have lost in the process and how much we stand to regain by protesting recent departures from the Bill of Rights.
• 5:00 am
  Weekend Edition
MORNING
• 7:00 am
  Weekend Edition

  Perspectives7:36am & 8:36am
  
  
• 9:00 am
  Weekend Edition
• 10:00 am
  Car Talk
• 11:00 am
  Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me This quiz show takes a fresh, fast-paced and irreverent look at the week's events. NPR veteran newscaster Carl Kassell is the program's judge, scorekeeper, and quiz show impersonator extraordinaire.
AFTERNOON
• 12:00 pm
  This American Life Invisible Made Visible The program presents the radio debut of an episode produced live on stage and beamed to movie theatres all over the country. David Sedaris, David Rakoff, Tig Notaro and Ryan Knighton performed stories. Mike Birbiglia made a short film, co-starring Terry Gross.
• 1:00 pm
  Radio Specials Patient Zero The greatest mysteries all have a shadowy figure at the center -- someone who sets things in motion and holds the key to how the rest of the story unfolds. In epidemiology, this central character is known as patient zero: the case at the heart of an outbreak. Radiolab hunts for patient zeroes from all over the map, from the origins of a blues legend to the history of the high five, to a race to halt the spread of a deadly disease.
• 2:00 pm
  Moyers & Company Reckoning With Torture After 9/11, the U.S. government turned to torture -- in defiance of domestic and international laws -- to extract information about and from terrorists and others who might follow after them. Were it not for defense attorneys and the work of human rights organizations, these prisoners would be ignored. But that's changing. The ACLU and the international literary and human rights group PEN have teamed up to comb through 150,000 declassified documents -- as well as large collections of articles and transcripts -- to produce "The Torture Report: What the Documents Say About America's Post-9/11 Torture Program," written by PEN's Larry Siems. Siems joins Bill Moyers.
• 3:00 pm
  BBC World Service
• 4:00 pm
  Living On Earth EPA Under Fire for Bee Deaths A group of beekeepers has signed a petition asking the EPA to ban a pesticide they believe is responsible for massive bee deaths. Center for Food Safety attorney Peter Jenkins tells host Bruce Gellerman the agency has failed to regulate a chemical they know is dangerous to bees. But Jack Boyne, from chemical company Bayer, cites hundreds of studies and says the pesticide is safe. Lastly, USDA scientist Jeffrey Pettis talks about the latest research on bee colony collapse disorder.
• 5:00 pm
  All Things Considered
EVENING
• 6:00 pm
  A Prairie Home Companion Diamonds in the Rough The show broadcasts from the Filene Center at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts. Special guests include slow-burning singer and songwriter Shawn Colvin, wearer of many hats Sara Watkins and former yurt dweller Heather Masse.
• 8:00 pm
  Selected Shorts The Power of Love Keir Dullea reads "Love" by Tibor Dery; and Linda Lavin reads "Silver Water" by Amy Bloom.
• 9:00 pm
  This American Life Invisible Made Visible The program presents the radio debut of an episode produced live on stage and beamed to movie theatres all over the country. David Sedaris, David Rakoff, Tig Notaro and Ryan Knighton performed stories. Mike Birbiglia made a short film, co-starring Terry Gross.
• 10:00 pm
  Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me This quiz show takes a fresh, fast-paced and irreverent look at the week's events. NPR veteran newscaster Carl Kassell is the program's judge, scorekeeper, and quiz show impersonator extraordinaire.
• 11:00 pm
  Snap Judgment